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Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.

What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!

Who we are:

Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded more than a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in higher education. We’ve since scaled into new regions and industry verticals and expanded our product offerings to deliver meaningful value to our clients around the world.

Today we support more than 4,800 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies.

With over 1,200 global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.

Job Description

The Opportunity:

We, at Flywire, are looking for an experienced Sr. Software Engineer II, ideally with a background in FinTech. Your primary responsibility will be to build and maintain the platform that supports the money movement of our industry leading payment engine moving hundreds of millions everyday.

You will be joining a team in charge of designing new functionalities and improving the current capabilities to improve speed, cost and scalability of our product. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, pragmatic design, building quality products and to convey the sensation that the product is the responsibility of all the team is essential. You will be responsible for ensuring high quality code in a team defined timeframe.

Write clean, high quality, testable, secure, maintainable and extendable code
Solve items such as challenging bugs and production issues within the development environment
Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
Understand scalability and performance status and make improvement for scalability
Drive change and improvement in all phases of the development lifecycle
Partake in the recruitment process by identifying and exciting great talent
Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
Contribute to the product vision by collaborating with Product Managers and stakeholders
Drive initiatives to lead projects as well as mentor team members

Qualifications

Here’s What We’re Looking For:

8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer focused on Backend development.
Experience in designing, developing and supporting scalable, performant and reliable web applications and distributed systems
Seasoned in techniques such TDD and BDD
Proficient working with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
Understanding of relational databases
Strong understanding of object-oriented fundamentals
Great understanding of the other disciplines in the cross functional team: QAs, Product and SREs
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross functional teams including product and support
Fluent in English, as it is the company’s working language
Experience in FinTech or the payment industry will be appreciated
The ability to deliver high quality code and learn quickly

Technologies We Use:

Ruby and Java
React
Spring & Hibernate frameworks
MySQL
JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
System management: Linux, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Sidekiq, AMQP, ElasticSearch,
Cloud platform: AWS

Additional Information

What We Offer:

Competitive compensation
Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program (Meet our Execs & Global Teams)
Work with brilliant people that will keep you on your toes, learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness, Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates
Be a meaningful part in our success - every FlyMate makes an impact
Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in a cause you believe in and Digital Disconnect Days!
Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight – for new or aspiring managers!)

Submit today and get started!

We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for any questions.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer and follows a policy of administering all employment decisions and personnel actions without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender identity, national origin, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, genetic disposition or carrier status, veteran status, or any other category protected under applicable national, federal, state or local law.

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